Upgrade to i5 4590 worth it?

[Kfallout]

My friend is offering to sell me his i5 4590 for $100 with a 1150 motherboard if I give him my current 1151 motherboard as he plans to be upgrading to an i7 6700k. I currently have a pentium g4560 and I know upgrading to the i5 4590 would yield better performance, but is it worth giving up my newer platform for an older platform? Also I would be able to use 12gbs of ram that I have from an old build if I take him up on his offer instead of just the 8gbs of ram on the current one I'm using. So is it worth it? 

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3 minutes ago, Kfallout said:

My friend is offering to sell me his i5 4590 for $100 with a 1150 motherboard if I give him my current 1151 motherboard as he plans to be upgrading to an i7 6700k. I currently have a pentium g4560 and I know upgrading to the i5 4590 would yield better performance, but is it worth giving up my newer platform for an older platform? Also I would be able to use 12gbs of ram that I have from an old build if I take him up on his offer instead of just the 8gbs of ram on the current one I'm using. So is it worth it? 

Please, there are night theme users

 

3 minutes ago, Kfallout said:

My friend is offering to sell me his i5 4590 for $100 with a 1150 motherboard if I give him my current 1151 motherboard as he plans to be upgrading to an i7 6700k. I currently have a pentium g4560 and I know upgrading to the i5 4590 would yield better performance, but is it worth giving up my newer platform for an older platform? Also I would be able to use 12gbs of ram that I have from an old build if I take him up on his offer instead of just the 8gbs of ram on the current one I'm using. So is it worth it? 

Yes, yes it is. How mush ram slots does the board have?

[Kfallout]

18 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Please, there are night theme users

 

Yes, yes it is. How mush ram slots does the board have?

Sorry I'm relatively new so I didn't know about the text appearing like that for night theme users 

 

The board that I'm getting with the i5 has 4 slots, I will be using 3 of those 4 slots for a total of 12gbs of ram 

[Gaurav S Rao]

On 4/11/2017 at 2:14 AM, Kfallout said:

My friend is offering to sell me his i5 4590 for $100 with a 1150 motherboard if I give him my current 1151 motherboard as he plans to be upgrading to an i7 6700k. I currently have a pentium g4560 and I know upgrading to the i5 4590 would yield better performance, but is it worth giving up my newer platform for an older platform? Also I would be able to use 12gbs of ram that I have from an old build if I take him up on his offer instead of just the 8gbs of ram on the current one I'm using. So is it worth it? 

I dont think it is a good offer since the haswell series of cpu's came out in 2013 and does not have a upgrade path to later generation cpu's,the only upgrade path with it is to a i7 or i5 in the haswell series,while the socket 1151 mobo's can still take high end,latest cpu's from intel,and still you have to pay money for the combo and in that around that much price

 you can get a i5 6400 used

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-6400-2-7GHz-6MB-8GT-s-SR2L7-LGA-1151-CPU-/201887125272?hash=item2f01690f18:g:VkgAAOSwc49Y66Nk

for that platform (if you're on z170)

 

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Just now, Gaurav S Rao said:

I dont think it is a good offer since the haswell series of cpu's came out in 2013 and does not have a upgrade path to later generation cpu's,the only upgrade path with it is to a i7 or i5 in the haswell series,while the socket 1151 mobo's can still take high end,latest cpu's from intel,and still you have to pay money for the combo

and you can get a i5 6400 used

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-6400-2-7GHz-6MB-8GT-s-SR2L7-LGA-1151-CPU-/201887125272?hash=item2f01690f18:g:VkgAAOSwc49Y66Nk

for that platform (if you're on z170)

 

I guess you have to consider that, then...

[Jurrunio]

Depends on whether you want to upgrade your G4560 to something newer but with the same socket in the future.

 

But if you won't upgrade your CPU to others using the same socket, then go for your friend's board and CPU. You can use it till it gets outdated and get a new board and CPU then.

[Andrew Sh]

No I wouldn't.

I would sell the old RAM and your pentium and get something like a 6500.

[Kfallout]

27 minutes ago, Gaurav S Rao said:

I dont think it is a good offer since the haswell series of cpu's came out in 2013 and does not have a upgrade path to later generation cpu's,the only upgrade path with it is to a i7 or i5 in the haswell series,while the socket 1151 mobo's can still take high end,latest cpu's from intel,and still you have to pay money for the combo and in that around that much price

 you can get a i5 6400 used

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-6400-2-7GHz-6MB-8GT-s-SR2L7-LGA-1151-CPU-/201887125272?hash=item2f01690f18:g:VkgAAOSwc49Y66Nk

for that platform (if you're on z170)

 

I didn't plan on upgrading my cpu to others of the same socket. I was going to wait for the g4560 to become obsolete and then get a new platform all together. I'm only considering my friend's offer because I know that the i5 is stronger than what I have and I get the benefit of using 12gbs of ram

[Blackhole890]

your actual cpu equals to i5-7400 and depending on what are you going to use for. If you have to upgrade, you could go for the i7-4770 or i7-4790 which are pretty strong even if we are on 2017

[lautaro_busto]

5 minutes ago, Kfallout said:

I didn't plan on upgrading my cpu to others of the same socket. I was going to wait for the g4560 to become obsolete and then get a new platform all together. I'm only considering my friend's offer because I know that the i5 is stronger than what I have and I get the benefit of using 12gbs of ram

If you weren't interested in upgrade ur 4560 then do it u won't interested on upgrading the i5. And if u do u could get an old i7 down the road a bit cheaper than than a new one. And still getting more performance than the pentium 

[Bananasplit_00]

no, not worth it because its not worth that much. it will preform better, sure, but its not worth $100 + your CPU and motherboard.  if you can make him go down to maybe $50 then i could see it being a decent deal though